Daily Rotten Archives January 12, 2003 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 Pot courier samples goods during road trip KMBC-TV 9 Kansas City | Submitted by: Ted "Deputies found Gibbs' car off Highway 71. The driver was asleep, but woke up at that time. Investigators said that he was not able to tell deputies much information. 'He was not real coherent, and hasn't given us much information at this time.' Deputies allegedly found drug paraphernalia in the front seat of the car and a brick of marijuana in the back seat. After the car was impounded, deputies said that they discovered 100 pounds of pot worth almost $75,000." Check out the mugshot, the dude is still stoned out of his gourd and half-asleep. Read article... Got leg? The Mercury (Durban) | Submitted by: Captain Prozac "Judge Alhaji Abdu Yerima ordered that the convict's right leg be amputated at the knee and that the person or doctor who executes the sentence should not administer anaesthetic or painkillers." Read article... Judge: Multiple personalities have Miranda rights World Net Daily | Submitted by: UncleGum "At the time of her arrest, Haley reportedly made several statements implicating herself, but District Judge Thomas Honzel tossed them out, saying the damaging remarks presumably had been made by Haley's alternate personality, who had not been given an additional advisement of her rights." Read article... US teen murdered love rival with cyanide online.ie | Submitted by: KC "A Maryland teenager has been charged with murder for allegedly poisoning a love rival's soft drink with cyanide... Ryan Furlough, 18, slipped the substance into his friend's drink as they played computer games in Furlough's basement in suburban Baltimore, police said." Read article... Pee-wee Porn Yahoo! UK | Submitted by: Chairman Goodchild Paul Reubens, better known as Pee-Wee Herman is up on some child porn charges after complaints from the same youth who recently got actor Jeffrey Jones (Ferris Bueller's Principal) in trouble. This is the second follow up for this story, and it's still quite hazy. The D.A. filed charges on the last day possible. Read article... Water-tight Alibi Sun | Submitted by: chompson "A Mafia hitman told a stunned judge yesterday he did not commit the double murder he was accused of — because he was killing two other men at the time... "It was not me who killed those men because that night I was shooting two others, Sebastiano Campagnolo and Antonio Anastasi." Of course he could be lying to get the others convicted for it out of jail. Read article... Accessory gets 10 years in windshield case Ft. Worth Star-Telegram | Submitted by: brojack This is a followup of the woman who left a man stuck in her windshield until he died: "There had been some talk about burning the body and the car," Harris said. "He thought the body should be left where it could be found... "You have to understand, in his world, trying to do the right thing but not getting involved with authorities is the prudent way to proceed. He was trying to see that the family recovered their loved one for a proper burial." Read article... Courts being sponsered by Nike? The Age | Submitted by: kade "A cash shortage has an American city half seriously seeking a sponsor for its court prosecutions. Gerard Wright reports from Los Angeles... Hand on heart, tongue in cheek, Harvey Bryant, the Virginia Beach city attorney, offered this solution to his office's cash shortage: "We could have the Nike domestic violence prosecutor," he said, "though we would have to change our slogan to Just don't do it." Read article... Toughest old man ever Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Submitted by: Fatty "In a virtual repeat of a scenario played out less than three years ago, Adams shot and killed an armed man Thursday night who allegedly tried to hold up the store Adams has owned for a quarter century. Adams, who has owned the small grocery store just inside I-285 for 26 years, said he was in a rear office watching television when he saw the robbers on his store monitor about 10:45PM." Read article... Teacher talking sex with 8th grade girls The Smoking Gun | Submitted by: JD "A middle school teacher asked a female student for oral sex, spoke with his class about lewd acts like "tea bagging" and "fish eye," and tried to entice an eighth grader to smoke pot with him, according to police... When cops questioned Abbott about his classroom behavior, he acknowledged some of his revolting behavior, but claimed, "I have never been sexually inappropriate with a female student." Read article... Boulder smashes car Sun | Submitted by: chompson “A neighbour came round and said 'I think you’d better come outside'. I nearly collapsed when I saw what had happened. I sent off my letter to the insurance company explaining 'car smashed by rock'". No shit. Photo. Read article... Busted for easy access Aftenposten | Submitted by: The Good Doctor "OBOS, Norway's largest cooperative building and housing agent, has been ordered to cease using an advertisement, featuring a busty woman over a double entendre riddled text, after the Market Council deemed it offensive to women... The image of a well endowed woman with a low cut shirt that bared her belly, was coupled with real estate text offering a property that was "Attractive and well-tended, including new balconies and easy access". Read article... Former Attorney General casts Christ as terrorist Cybercast News Service | Submitted by: The Good Doctor "Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark Wednesday compared Jesus Christ to a terrorist during a media event for a new anti-war group... "The Christian Church overwhelmingly, there are exceptions, who choose to call Mohammed a terrorist. They could call Jesus a terrorist too," said Clark. "I mean, he was pretty tough on money lenders a time or two." Read article... They're here, they're queer, they're armed Orange County Weekly | Submitted by: Todd Mathews You live long enough under the threat of getting the hell kicked out of you, and you start looking for options. A few gay men and lesbians have turned to guns; some of those have banded together as Orange County's Pink Pistols. They're all for peace, love and understanding among straights and gays. Meantime, they're taking target practice. Read article... A close haze KNBC-TV 4 Los Angeles | Submitted by: Repoz "A man convicted of the baseball bat beatings of his two college roommates after they shaved his eyebrow and part of his hair as a prank was sentenced to 15 years in prison... "If I knew suicide would bring Jared back and heal Shane's wounds, I would be in the grave. I am sorry, Jared. May you rest in peace in heaven. I am sorry, Shane. May you live a long and happy life." Read article... Sex reassignment at age 11 News Corporation | Submitted by: Dirty Sammy "In what is believed to be an Australian first, the student last year began going to school partially dressed as a woman – wearing make-up and growing his hair long... This year he is taking the transformation further, he has begun a course of hormones that will stop facial hair growth and eventually develop breasts." Read article... Stolen Beatles recovered Fox News | Submitted by: Boat6float "British police said the tapes were 'priceless.' Dutch police, who found the tapes in the Netherlands, agreed, but said analysis of the material was ongoing. The material disappeared shortly after the 1969 Beatles sessions which attempted a more back-to-basics approach to recording after the tensions of the 1968 White Album." Thank god 500 Yoko Ono tapes weren't recovered. Read article... Mother-Politician-Gambler of the Year Chicago Sun-Times | Submitted by: SpecialK Former Cicero, IL Town President Betty Loren-Maltese was sentenced to eight years in federal prison Thursday. She: bilked her town of over $12 million in an insurance scheme; adopted a child (pawn) just before being charged; and blew over eighteen million dollars in Vega$ playing the slots! It should be noted that Cicero was Al Capone's hangout back in the day. Read article... School girls just want to do porn Mainichi Daily News | Submitted by: LucrezaBorgia "Mikinao Nakajima, president of BR video production firm in Shibuya-ku said that although the high school girls were required to be naked for the videos he didn't have any trouble with hiring. "We had more of them turn up than we could handle," Shibuya police quoted Nakajima as saying.Initially, Nakajima put an advertisement in a part-time job information magazine offering the girls 20,000 yen a day. He told the officers, however, that as so many girls responded to the advertisement, the company had no choice but to drop the payment to 10,000 yen." They had no choice! Read article... The #1 suspect? "Pat" WCCO-TV 4 Minneapolis | Submitted by: Dildagoat "Police said that someone robbed two banks in Eastern Connecticut Thursday, but they don't know if it's a man or a woman... Police said a person waited in line and handed a note to a teller and demanded money. He or she got an undisclosed amount of money and left the bank." Pictures show... a Pat. Read article... Virgin Mary seen on picture window Yahoo! Canada | Submitted by: The Lone Gunman If you were the Mother of God, would you appear as a vision at a holy site like a catheral or at a local donut shop wall? "Since September, mysterious images of Mary, mother of Christ, have been reported in four villages, three of which are accessible only by airplane, spurring hundreds of people to visit. Sightings of images of Christ, Mary and saints are not uncommon around the world, and have been witnessed in media as diverse as glass, water, a burrito and a Camaro muscle car." Read article... Passport: Male / Female / Other The West Australian | Submitted by: DrFrost "The Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade initially baulked, saying its computers could deal only with an F or M in the sex field of passports... Alex is believed to be the first Australian issued with a birth certificate acknowledging a gender other than male of female." Read article... Russian minces friend after argument Stuff NZ | Submitted by: anonymous "Yevgeny Usanov stabbed his victim through the heart in the central Russian town of Saratov, the agency said yesterday. He cut up the body, wrapped it in bay leaves and fed it through a mincer. "These culinary preparations were done with only one aim – to eat the victim," prosecutor Natalya Rubanova told the court." Read article...